Word: coupes
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Moreover, both Bush and Clinton argued unconvincingly that the fleeing Haitians are economic refugees, and therefore unworthy of political asylum. Unfortunately, it is not so easy to distinguish between the two in a country where people are routinely punished for real or suspected political sympathies. Since a military coup overthrew the democratically elected government of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991, Amnesty International has documented thousands of beatings, detentions, tortures, "disappearances" and deaths in Haiti...
Aidid could not let the challenge go unanswered. In a broadcast from his personal radio station in Mogadishu, he charged that the Americans had | engineered Morgan's coup, secretly flying him into Kismayu by helicopter. Next morning, the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, angry mobs jammed the streets of Mogadishu, setting up burning roadblocks of tires and overturned vehicles. Children who had waved happily at passing American troops the day before now hurled chunks of concrete. The next day, the stones turned to bullets and coalition troops fought back...
...Republic, gorging herself from the steaming pot, while her infant sucks at her breast -- a continuum of blind appetite, expressed in rhythmical line. Here, the long Rococo tradition in French art of painting the lower classes as nifty milkmaids or idealized swains gets its coup de grace. Not all of Daumier's drawings have the fierceness of this one (how could any artist sustain it?), but they do share, in varying degrees, its essential spontaneity. His figures always seem to be going somewhere, doing something, and to be conceived in the active rather than the passive voice...
...just astonishing to be able to recruit a couple this strong," he said. "This is a real coup for Harvard University...
...true coup," said Government Department Chair Susan J. Pharr. "He's one of the world's leading experts on third world development issues and African politics and a superb teache. He will bring great strength to the government department...